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Open source XR runtime (VR/AR) 'Monado' sees a first release

By Liam Dawe, 25 Feb 2020

With the Khronos Group launching the OpenXR specification last year, their aim was to unify Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) development while Collabora worked on their open source implementation of Monado.

Lurking in the Dark is a sweet idea for a game and it's now open source

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2020

Lurking in the Dark, a clever 2D game about climbing a dark tower that was made during the GMTK Game Jam last year has been made open source.

Open source modern Caesar III game engine 'Julius' has a fresh release up

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2020

Get ready to build a city with the classic Caesar III, as the developer behind the open source game engine Julius tagged a big new release.

Vulkan overlay layer 'MangoHud' continues advancing quickly with a big new release

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2020

MangoHud enables you to quickly and easily monitor FPS, temperatures, RAM, VRAM and do a little benchmarking too. A fresh release was just today put up.

A tournament for the lightweight free FPS 'Warfork' is happening Sat 15 February

By -Daniel-Palacio-, 13 Feb 2020

The Keep, a FPS gaming community will be celebrating a new event this Saturday for the frenetic and interesting FPS Warfork.

Logitech Wheel manager 'Oversteer' has a huge new release - also check out 'new-lg4ff' for more features

By Liam Dawe, 12 Feb 2020

Oversteer is quite possibly one of my favourite open source applications, as it's made working with my own Logitech G29 a really great experience.

Open source sim 'OpenTTD' enters feature freeze for the next major version

By Liam Dawe, 11 Feb 2020

The classic free and open source sim OpenTTD, based upon the popular Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" has now entered a feature freeze period with the first Release Candidate out for the upcoming major update.

Inspired by Master of Orion, free and open source 'FreeOrion' has a new release up

By Liam Dawe, 10 Feb 2020

The free and open source space strategy sim FreeOrion has a new release out, the first in quite some time.

UAlbion is an open source game engine for the 1995 classic RPG 'Albion'

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2020

Yet another classic game is being kept alive on modern systems thanks to open source. UAlbion was pointed out to us recently, as a game engine for Albion the 1995 classic from Blue Byte Studio.

Raze - a new open source fork of EDuke32 backed by GZDoom tech

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2020

Late last month to coincide with the 24th anniversary of Duke Nukem 3D, the EDuke32 fork Raze was announced.

Unitystation, a cross-platform remake of Space Station 13 has a first public build up

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2020

Space Station 13 is something of a classic, released way back in 2003 on the BYOND service. It's being remade with Unity to have a more modern experience, as well as being cross-platform.

MangoHud, a new open source Vulkan overlay layer for gaming on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 4 Feb 2020

Today, the first official release of MangoHud went out, a new open source Vulkan overlay layer for gaming on Linux.

Pioneer, the classic open-source space sim has a big new release out

By Liam Dawe, 4 Feb 2020

Inspired by the classic Frontier: Elite II, Pioneer is a free and open source space adventure sim. Open-ended exploration, allowing you to do whatever you want and there's a big release out now.

Developed in Rust, the open-world and open-source voxel RPG 'Veloren' has a big new release

By Liam Dawe, 4 Feb 2020

Veloren, inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft this new and in-development open-world RPG certainly has a lot to live up to and a lot of promise.

Godot Engine was approved for an Epic MegaGrant

By Liam Dawe, 3 Feb 2020

Some good news to share for the free and open source Godot Engine, as the lead developer Juan Linietsky announced during GodotCon that Epic Games have approved them for an Epic MegaGrant.

Want to make a 3D adventure game? There's now a full template project for Godot Engine

By Liam Dawe, 3 Feb 2020

Say hello to GOAT (Godot Open Adventure Template), a new open source project template for Godot Engine aimed at helping developers to create 3D adventure games.

Isometric university management game 'UniverCity' development stops - goes open source

By Liam Dawe, 3 Feb 2020

UniverCity from Matthew Collins sadly didn't sell too well and now the developer has a new job, so they decided to fix it up a bit - add some extra modding support and open source the code.

Post-processing layer 'vkBasalt' new release up - can now use some ReShade shaders

By Liam Dawe, 2 Feb 2020

Another fresh release of a wonderful open source project for Linux is here, with the Vulkan post-processing layer vkBasalt continuing to advance.

OpenRA has a new release for classic Westwood real-time strategy - massive upgrade also in testing

By Liam Dawe, 1 Feb 2020

The team working on OpenRA, the game engine that keeps classic Westwood real-time strategy games alive have pushed out a new release. Plus there's some real exciting advancements coming.